Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child . |
| 2 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
| 3 | Of course , to achieve that I needed the former whore 's co-operation so I secretly sent her the messages . ’ |
| 4 | She replied that she had no such intention . |
| 5 | Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire , which threw me utterly . |
| 6 | ‘ Sarah explained that she had no more money , but the driver told her to get off . ’ |
| 7 | Well who , who noticed that you had the least Brummie accent ? |
| 8 | There has been some argument about whether or not they knew what he was doing , but most of them now piously assert that they had no such knowledge and some take the view that it was an outrageous breach of confidence . |
| 9 | Oh it is true , but it did , it did do it , but that was the other day and I did n't think that they had the same effect , no , well perhaps so , mind you I mean we have done a lot of walking , have n't we ? |
| 10 | Hubble noted that certain types of stars always have the same luminosity when they are near enough for us to measure ; therefore , he argued , if we found such stars in another galaxy , we could assume that they had the same luminosity — and so calculate the distance to that galaxy . |
| 11 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 12 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
| 13 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
| 14 | By then the Italian people had decided that they wanted no more war , so Mussolini was put in prison and a coalition government was formed under Badoglio , which government then surrendered to the Allied Forces . |
| 15 | Of the many books I have read , the ones whose authors showed that they possessed the most joy and happiness were Epictetus , Seneca , Tagore , Thoreau , Kabir , Raidas , Ramakrishna , Rumi , W.H. Davies , Vinoba Bhave . |
| 16 | Remains of older persons present more of a problem , and when dealing with earlier populations , it is difficult to be sure that significant age-changes took place at the same time , and that they showed the same group variability , as in modem populations . |
| 17 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 18 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 19 | It is worth remembering that , when Indira asked Rajiv to go into politics after his elder brother 's death in 1980 , he put out a statement saying that he had no such intention . |
| 20 | He said he was quick to point out that he had no such intention . |
| 21 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 22 | Whatever the truth behind that story , in July 1990 Rob Lowe showed the world that he had the same kind of concerns and cares as everyone else when he made a surprise and last-minute appearance at the Knebworth Charity Festival where Elton John and Phil Collins were among the artists performing . |
| 23 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 24 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |